Amos 1:3

This is also what Yahweh said to me: “ I will punish the people of Damascus, the capital of Syria, because of the many sins that they have committed; I will not change my mind about punishing them [MTY], because the cruel things that they did to the people of the Gilead region were like [MET] people threshing grain using sledges that have ◄iron teeth/sharp iron nails► in them.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

In Context

2This is what Yahweh said: “I will roar like a lion [MET]; when I speak from Zion Hill in Jerusalem [DOU], my voice will resemble the sound of thunder. When that happens, the pastures where you shepherds take care of your sheep will dry up, and the grass on top of Carmel Mountain will ◄wither/become brown► because I will cause that no rain will fall.”

4I will cause a fire to burn the palace that King Hazael built and lived in, the fortress where his son King Ben-Hadad also lived.

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Cross References

1 Kings 19:17Hazael’s army will kill many people, and those who escape from being killed by his army will be killed by Jehu’s army, and those who escape from being killed by Jehu’s army will be killed by Elisha.

2 Kings 10:32At that time, Yahweh began to cause the territory controlled by Israel to become smaller. The army of King Hazael of Syria conquered much of the Israeli territory.

2 Kings 13:7Jehoahaz had only 50 men who rode on horses and ten chariots and 10,000 other soldiers, because the army of Syria had killed all the rest, trampling them like people walk on dirt.

Job 19:3You have already insulted me many [HYP] times; ◄are you not ashamed for saying these things to me?/you should be ashamed for saying these things to me.► [RHQ]

Ecclesiastes 11:2Share some of what you have with ◄seven or eight/several► others, because you do not know when you will experience a disaster, and if you give some of what you have to others, when you experience that disaster, they will kindly help you.

Isaiah 8:4because before he is old enough to say ‘papa’ or ‘mama’, the King of Assyria will come with his army and quickly take away all the valuable things in Damascus and in Samaria.”

Matthew Henry on Amos 1:2-3

Amos Though this prophet appeared a little before Isaiah, yet he was not, as some have mistaken, that Amos who was the father of Isaiah ( Isa. i. 1 ), for in the Hebrew their names are very different; their families too were of a different character, for Isaiah was a courtier, Amos a country-farmer. Amos signifies a burden, whence the Jews have a tradition that he was of a slow tongue and spoke with stammering lips; we may rather, in allusion to his name, say that his speech was weighty and his word the burden of… Read the whole commentary →

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